This is my morning forecast:

NWS says 70% chance of rain.
NWS service calls for 7-8 mph west surface winds.
High of 87 degrees.
Updraft velocity 200 - 300 fpm. NAM says Top of lift 3,000’. RAP says 0 – 1,000’.

We did not have any rain or any chance of rain.
The wind was 10 mph out of the west northwest.
At first the lift was... mehr

Photos by Mike Degtoff. mehr

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Andy and Mike enjoy the rainy day. mehr

It is actually a pretty nice day so far, but soon we will get
thunderstorms.

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Given the chance that the next five days may be rained out the
task committee called a long task (214 km) downwind to the north northwest to a
farm airfield. The lift looked like it would be strong and that there would be
cu's up high.I was first off right after Bruce Barmakian on his ATOS as a wind dummy. I got
pulled way to the south as... mehr

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Photo by Tullio Gervasoni. mehr

Zac writes:
Laying in the grass just past the 2nd turnpoint, watching the
gliders fly overhead. Not how day 1 is supposed to go.
Looks like either Jonny or Oleg won the day. Oleg was in first
then Jonny (who took the second clock) and it was a long wait for the next
pilots to make it in.
The task was a triangle to the north:


There were... mehr

https://airtribune.com/2016-quest-air-open-national-championships/resultThe day starts well. The task committee call a task to the south, south of
Wallaby and back to Wallaby as goal. The prediction of a west wind, not too
strong, dictates a cross wind task. Good lift and cu's give us the prospect of a
great Florida flying day.After a bit of... mehr

https://airtribune.com/2016-quest-air-open-national-championships/resultFlying over Bronson property, they didn't go down. Kelly and Niki flew together
with a prior agreement to do so. mehr

https://airtribune.com/2016-quest-air-open-national-championships/blog__day_3Yvonne and Belinda were able to get to Yoko and retrieve her glider. The Center
Hill fire department was about a mile away and fortunately the landowner called
911 as Belinda did and they got to Yoko right away.Airtribune Live Tracking makes pilots safer. mehr

http://gizmodo.com/why-is-the-first-ever-production-aircraft-in-a-modern-w-1776209810
Otto Lilienthal was the first human to develop and create a
production aircraft, going on to make over 2,000 well-documented gliding
flights. But now, 125 years on, a model of his creation is inside a modern wind
tunnel.Lilienthal studied how birds fly in... mehr

https://airtribune.com/2016-quest-air-open-national-championships/resultShort sport class task given the cloud cover (high cloud cover with embedded
cu's). Just to the Seminole glider port and back.Task 6:



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Name
Glider
Time
Distance
Total



1
Kelly Myrkle
Moyes Gecko
00:37:31
28.31
596


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Bruno... mehr

May 13 - 15Friday: A mostly sunny and flyable/soarable day. Heads up on a TFR for those who
were thinking of flying east. Looks like it starts about 3PM on Friday, and ends
Saturday about sunset.Here is a link to the TFR
http://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_6_2307.htmlSaturday: Some clouds will move into the area overnight but these should... mehr

Around 6 PM on Thursday. We did get a few sprinkles from this.A bit later that day.So romantic. mehr

Kelly came to the Oz Report World Headquarters and asked that his
anti-handicap be removed retroactively. Sport and U2 pilots have told me that
his Gecko has the same performance as the U2 and more than the Sport 2.
I would love to receive pilot testimony regarding the Orbiter. mehr

http://youtu.be/gtvlTVlUWuc


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